Exec inside a class method to call other class methods?

[David Stanek]

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Matthew Dubins
<matt.dubins at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have made a python script to upload contact information from an excel
> worksheet to an online database.  One part of the program that really
> tripped me up was when I wanted to call specific class methods that I had
> made to deal with specific types of contact information (Parent's name,
> Child's name, Phone #, etc).  My first thought was to make it easy using the
> exec statement.
> The code (a method within a class) looked like this:
> ----------
> def parse(self, data, data_type)
>   exec "self.__parse_%s(data)" % data_type
> ----------
> The data_type variable contains strings that exactly match the spellings of
> the 2nd word in the titles of the class methods that I wanted to call for
> each data_type inputted into the parse function.  For some reason, *it
> didn't work*.  Alternately, I found the ugly code shown below to be
> functional.  As you can see, for each data_type, I call the corresponding
> class method that I've specified.  Please help me to transform my ugly
> functional code into concise functional code. :)
>
> Thanks,
> Matthew
> ----------
>   def parse(self, data, data_type):
>       if data_type == 'nocall':
>           self.__parse_nocall(data)
>       elif data_type == 'DOB':
>           self.__parse_DOB(data)
>       elif data_type == 'gender':
>           self.__parse_gender(data)
>       elif data_type == 'Prematurity':
>           self.__parse_Prematurity(data)
>       elif data_type == 'email':
>           self.__parse_email(data)
>       elif data_type == 'languages':
>           self.__parse_languages(data)
>       elif data_type == 'phone':
>           self.__parse_phone(data)
>       elif data_type == 'cname':
>           self.__parse_cname(data)
>       elif data_type == 'pname':
>           self.__parse_pname(data)
>       elif data_type == 'address':
>           self.__parse_address(data)
>       elif data_type == 'duedate':
>           self.__parse_dudedate(data)
>

I would look for a way to reorganize your code so that each type
contains its own parse method.


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David
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